[Forgeties79]

Good news is there are many viable Firefox forks currently and I’m sure some of them could take the wheel. It is open source, after all.

It would be a shame to lose the Mozilla foundation/Firefox but it wouldn’t be the end of the browser.

[HerbManic]

Absolutely there are forks, they are what I run. But the majority of the work on the foundations still come primarily from Mozilla.

My fear is that, let's say Mozilla falls or shrinks considerably. It would take only a few complex but rationalised technologies from Google via chrome for Firefox and it's derivatives to fall behind. It already feels like they are constantly chasing instead of innovating and it wouldn't take much for them to fall behind on even that.

Personally, when they killed of the Servo team, that was a sign of their future. It was the team that was prototyping new web technologies long before they were mainstream ready. A lot of their stuff had been deployed into the main releases to great effect. The huge performance jump when they switched to the Quantum rendering system on version 68+ was a lot of their work. Then a few years back Mozilla just killed it off. It basically said they don't want to consider future technologies they are happy following. I don't see Firefox going away anytime soon but I'm not sure what shape it will be in a decade.

[Forgeties79]

I’m honestly not looking for an innovative browser. I’m looking for one that is auditable, reliable, and not fracking me for data.

I was also sad to see the servo team shut down and a lot of the Foundation decisions the last few years have caused me to raise an eyebrow, but ultimately I just want what I listed above.